TWO AWARD-WINNING FLICKr PHOTOGRAPHERS DUKE IT OUT

Being the flickr gentlemen that they are, these two guys have decided
to duke it out to settle who will be the greatest Photographer EVER to
post on Flickr.

After two years of feverish posting on Flickr, both of these
magnificent photographers found that they had exactly the SAME numbers
of "Awards" given to them by fellow flickr members. Their
"Comments" section under the photos amassed huge amounts of
these "copy and paste" trophies of colorful praise.

The latest GIF Animated award that turned up in both of their comment
blocks --- complete with 3-D effects and color-changing shooting stars
and twinkles ---was the " EVERY FRAME OF JAMES CAMERON'S AVATAR WAS A TOTAL PIECE OF CRAP
COMPARED TO YOUR AMAZING PHOTOGRAPH " Award.

Wow. These two guys must be REALLY good !

Coincidentally, they are both members of 152 "Groups" and 85
"Pools". Further, each has received (and rejected) a total
of 138 invitations to join SADO-MASOCHISM flickr groups involving the
questionable use of spiked thongs, shoe-horns, and empty toner
cartridges.

Each claims to have hit the "TAKE ME TO THE KITTENS" button
at least 1000 times.

In any case, these ubiquitous (and usually impersonal) accolades of
excellence are too numerous to mention here. Attached below, I will
list only the TOP SEVEN awards given to each of them. Unfortunately,
several X and R-RATED Awards have been omitted from the below list due
to their containing an abundance of Anglo-Saxon expletives.

PLEASE NOTE : Since they both won the "DAMN, I WISH I HAD TAKEN THAT ONE, BUT I DIDN'T, SO WHAT'S THE USE OF
LIVING, I'M GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE" Award --- complete with an over-sized, animated, twinkle-star
AWARD ICON picturing a Photographer throwing himself off a cliff --- I
decided not to include that one.......

ANSEL ADAMS AND PETER LIK ARE SO JEALOUS OF YOUR NATURE PHOTOGRAPH
THAT THEY CRAPPED IN THEIR PANTS Award --- With an animated sparkly waterfall coming over a
diamond-studded cliff in an emerald forest filled with pulsating
sunbeams that illuminate swaying ferns under swirling butterflies.

YOU, AND YOU ALONE, AND NOBODY ELSE Award -- with animated figure alone on an isolated mountain top,
defiantly throwing fists into the air -- with sparkly gold glitter
effects

TITANIUM MAGNESIUM SAMARIUM-COBALT RARE EARTH MAGNET Award --- With a beautiful award image showing a wannabe
photographer in a meat-packing plant, pinned to a giant refrigerator
by a giant magnetron magnet, while holding a disposable film camera
and slowly losing consciousness.

BETTER THAN GOD HIMSELF COULD HAVE DONE Award -- with Sparkly Gold animation of Huge Father Figure in Clouds
with dejected look on His face, getting off His Throne while gesturing
at you to go sit up there in His place.

NOTE : ALL OF THE AWARDS AND ANIMATED GRAPHICS ARE FAR BETTER AND
MORE CREATIVE THAN ANY OF THE PHOTOS RECEIVING THE AWARDS.

Please note that it was "Dew Drop" who first complained to
"String Bean" about the BETTER THAN GOD HIMSELF COULD HAVE DONE award. "Dew Drop", who is a confirmed Atheist, said there
was no God, and therefore that award shouldn't count.

"String Bean" immediately fired back that if such was the
case, "Dew Drop" was a hypocrite for not having deleted his
own HOLY MOTHER OF GOD award.

That's what eventually led to the fight you see in the Photo.

[By the way, I am now in hiding, and posting from an "undisclosed
location". I heard a rumor that some members of the FLICKr ANIMATED & TWINKLE STAR AWARD GIVERS ASSOCIATION have taken out a contract on my life.]

Hi Athana --- Sure, help yourself. All of my old picture posts are CC rated. That means you can you as many as you want --- Permission is already granted, with no need to ask me ! The only rules around here are flickr rules, and they ask that you make any photo(s) you use linkable (or "clickable") back to the original photo page(s) from whence you downloaded them. Thanks !

This photo definitely deserves the 'Lifetime Achievement award for best photographic image since the dawn of civilisation.'I think it would even qualify for the KFC award for best non-chicken related photograph taken by a turkey !!

I just can't help myself... I tried to set up a serious and poignant gallery called "Just The Two Of Us". I chose several tender and beautifully photographed images. But I kept coming back to this one. Quite out-of-the-ordinary, but irresistibly fun. So it now has a proud spot in my gallery:www.flickr.com/photos/ricspix/galleries/72157624577180776/Thanks for sharing this great image...!